Students, together with human rights activists and trade unions, organised a demon­stra­tion on 7 February in Georgia’s capital, to protest the mass firing of employees from a nitrogen plant in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of Tbilisi.

Labour leg­is­la­tion in Georgia is not gender sensitive, and does not comply with inter­na­tion­al standards. It does not protect women from being dis­crim­i­nat­ed against, whether in the pre-contract stage or within the workplace. [Read more…]